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Friday, September 12, 2008

Rigel's First Day of School

Brave and Happy

Mom is hovering before Rigel sends us on our way...

Upon asking throughout the first week if he liked school, the teacher, etc., Rigel stated, "The teacher is mean. I don't like her. She spanked me and threw me in the trash can." Rigel's perception of the ultimate worst-case-scenario is to be thrown away in the trash can... gotten rid of. :( After discussing these conversations with the teacher, she reassured us that she never spanks, and would lose her job if she ever did.

Despite our happy first day photos, we have decided after a week of class time to find a different preshcool for Rigel, for reasons not specifically relating to our son's report. He just wasn't very comfortable there.

"We hurry through the so-called boring things in order to attend to that which we deem more important, interesting. Perhaps the final freedom will be a recognition that everything in every moment is essential and that nothing at all is 'important.' "--Helen M. Luke

"Do not fear mistakes. There are none."--Miles Davis

"It may be human nature to see life in terms of highs and lows, but the bulk of it, really, is just navigating the vast, annoyance-flecked stretches in between--without inflating them into dramas."--Carolyn Hax"i thank you godfor most this amazing day; forthe leaping greenly spirits of treesand a blue truedream of sky;and for everythingwhich is naturalwhich is infintitewhich is yes."--e.e. cummings"The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective."--Henry David Thoureau

"I write as I might sew—cutting out the pieces, threading them to each other—not knowing until they are connected whether the garment might flow, hang, wrinkle or sag."--Twigg and Bug

Parenthood provides us a different ruler with which to measure our wealth.

The golden bees are making sweet honeyFrom all my old failures.--Antonio Machado